“Whether or not Jesus was Palestinian doesn’t matter.” — Op-Ed
Jesus was a Palestinian man.
Nebuchadnezzar II was a Syrian man.
Cyrus the Great was an Iranian man.
The Buddha was a Nepalese man.
Alexander the Great was an Egyptian man.
Hannibal was a Tunisian man.
Cicero was an Italian man.
Cleopatra was an Egyptian woman.
Constantine was a Turkish man.
Attila the Hun was a Hungarian man.
Muhammad was a Saudi man.
Charlemagne was a French man.
Godfrey of Bouillon was an Israeli man.
Saladin was an Iraqi man.
Tamerlane was an Uzbek man.
Vlad the Impaler was a Romanian man.
Columbus was an American man.
Barbarossa was a Greek man.
Babur was an Afghan man.
Cortez was a Mexican man.
Wallenstein was a Czech Republican man.
Aurangzeb was an Indian man.
Captain Cook was a Hawaiian man.
Catherine the Great was a Crimean woman.
Napoleon was a Haitian man.
Benjamin Disraeli was an Englishman.
Darwin was an Ecuadorian man.
Eliza Lynch was a Paraguayan woman.
Leopold II was a Congolese man.
Oscar Wilde was a French man.
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To read the rest of this review — and more by Steve Schmolaris — visit his website Bad Gardening Advice.
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Steve Schmolaris is the founder of the Schmolaris Prize, “the most prestigious prize in all of Manitoba,” which he first awarded in 1977. Each year, he awards the prize to the best album of the year. He does not have a profession but, having come from money (his father, “the Millionaire of East Schmelkirk,” left him his fortune when he died in 1977), Steve is a patron of the arts. Inspired by the exquisite detail of a holotype, the collective intelligence of slime mold, the natural world and the suffering inherent within it — and also music (fuck, he loves music!) — Steve has long been writing reviews of Winnipeg artists’ songs and albums at his website Bad Gardening Advice, leading to the publication of a book of the same name.
